Hi, Zydoon,
Zydoon wrote:
> Now I'm trying to make my tests, and I'm not that sure I will make the
> switch to the PSeries, since my dual xeon with 4 G RAM can handle 3500
> concurrent postmasters consuming 3.7 G of the RAM. I cannot reach this
> number on the PSeries with 2 G.
This sounds like you want to have one postgresql backend per apache
frontend.
Did you try running pgpool on the Apache machine, and have only a few
(hundred) connections to the backend?
Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached could be helpful, too.
Markus
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